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ADVERTISING DISPLAY Filed March 27, 1955 INVENTOR. Geo/"ye fid/f'resATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 14, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ApplicationMarch 27,

2 Claims.

The present invention relates to souvenirs or advertising novelties andto the method of making such articles.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide an advertisingnovelty in the form of a metal rosette having diverging arms or leavesconstituting display bearing mediums and also serving to distribute theweight whereby the same assumes a stable upright position when placedupon a supporting surface. As a result of the stability resulting fromthe formation of the several arms or leaves the device is adapted forservice as an advertisement bearing paper weight, in which case each orany of the various arms may be provided with indicia having advertisingvalue.

In articles of the present type an unusual or novel appearance increasestheir commercial value and accordingly the invention has as anotherobject to provide a method for the manufacture of rosettes and the likefrom hard metal, such as iron or steel, so that the articles producedtake on irregular shapes which attract attention and which, althoughappearing fragile, have mechanical strength sufiicient to stand roughusage such as dropping on a floor.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a method of makingadvertising or souvenir articles whereby articles successively producedtake on various dissimilar forms and whereby no two articles producedwill have the same form. In this connection the value of the article asa souvenir is enhanced in that it is impossible to form two articlesalike, thus making it possible to guarantee each purchaser of a souvenirthat no other person will receive one which is identical in shape.

With the above and other ends in view the invention consists in mattershereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the appendedclaims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which--Figure l is a front elevation of the article;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation;

Figs. 3 and 4 are cross sections illustrating different stages in theformation of the article;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary elevation of the tool for forming the device;

Figs. 6 and '7 are an elevation and plan respectively of an articlehaving another form.

Like characters of reference are employed throughout to designatecorresponding parts.

In Figures 1 and 2 there is illustrated one form of article whichcomprises two arcuately bent arms I and 2 angularly related one to theother 1935, Serial No. 13,189

so that when the article is placed on a supporting surface the arm 2provides a base and the arm I is supported in an upstanding position.Integral with the arms I and 2 are a plurality of smaller arms 4 and 5which give the article the appearance of a rosette. When the article isplaced in the position shown in Fig. 2 the arm 2 provides a base forsupporting the arms I and 4 so that their outer surfaces are exposed. Asindicated in reference to Fig. 1 advertising matter or indicia may beplaced on the outer surface of the arm I, and in a similar manner on thearms 2, 4 and 5, the indicia on the arms 2 and 5 being exposed when thearticle is placed so that the arm I serves as a base, instead of the arm2 as shown.

The method of making the above described article is illustrated in Figs.3 and 4. The first step consists in forcefully driving a chisel or liketool 6 into a solid block of metal 1, an example of the metal being ironor steel, so as to form a shaving 8 whose end remains united with theblock I. The next step is to provide other similar shavings 9 and I0whose ends remain united with the block. Successive cuts from differentdirections in the block I provide similar shavings II, I2 and I3 and byemploying a chisel such as shown in Fig. 5 having an angular end I4 eachof the shavings so formed will take on an arcuate form and will beprovided with irregular edges of different shapes. The desired number ofshavings or arms are formed in a block as shown in Fig. 4 where they areillustrated as being integrally united one with the others and with theblock 1 at the point I5. The final step consists in severing the armsfrom the block without severing them one from the other.

In Figs. 6 and 7 there is illustrated another shape of an article formedby the above described method. In this form a plurality of arms I6, I1and I8 extend outwardly from a relatively heavy part I9. Each arm I6, lland I8 has a surface suitable for bearing advertising or other indicia.

Although specific embodiments of the invention have been illustrated anddescribed it will be understood that various changes may be made in thedetails of construction without departing from the spirit of theinvention and such changes are contemplated.

What I claim is:

1. The method of forming an article of the character described whichconsists in providing a metal slab, cutting said slab to provide acomparatively long shallow gouge-like incision, consecutively providingsaid slab with a plurality of similar incisions each longer than the onepreceding it and each underlapping the one preceding it, bending thechips formed by said incisions to provide them with an arcuate formwhereby each chip partially envelops the chip preceding it, and finallysevering the chips as an integral group from said slab.

2. The method of forming a metal rosette which consists in providing ametal slab, cutting said slab to provide a comparatively long shallowgouge-like incision, consecutively providing said slab with a pluralityof similar incisions each longer than the one preceding it and eachunderlapping the one preceding it with all of said incisions extendingin the same general direction, bending the chips formed by saidincisions into an arcuate form whereby each chip partially envelops thechips preceding, cutting said slab to form a second long shallowgouge-like incision extending in a direction opposite to said firstnamed incisions and terminating at a point slightly spaced from theterminal of said first named incision, consecutively providing said slabwith a plurality of incisions underlapping said second incison wth eachincision longer than the one preceding and each incision terminating atpoints spaced from the terminal points of the other incisions, bendingthe chips formed by said last named incisions whereby each chip iscaused to partially envelop the one preceding it, and finally severingthe several chips formed by the several incisions from said slab as anintegral group.

GEORGE MAKRES.

